I've seen many of the Stop. y'all got really quiet, but you have just a few more minutes. If you want to keep talking amongst yourselves, that's okay. Okay. We're about to start. I promise. We're waiting on the most important person, which is our city secretary. Today's meeting Okay, good evening. I will now call our meeting to order. The special called city council meeting and election canvas. It is currently 5:14. And welcome to your for city council chamber. At this time, I will now turn it over to our lovely city secretary, Janette. Thank you. might check. Mayor and council, you have received the certifications of the tabulation of the official results from Tarant, Denton, and Parker counties for the general election held on May, Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 for the purpose of electing a mayor and 10 city council members for their respective single member districts of the city of Fort Worth, Texas, with the certified cumulative returns for such election. Results of the election are going to be displayed on the monitor. First is Mayor District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 6, District 7, District 8, District 9, District 10, and District 11. As a result of the election, the following persons are hereby declared elected. Mayor Maddie Parker with 66.68% of the vote. District two, Coun uh Carlos Flores with 73.66% of the vote. District 3, Michael D. Crane with 71.67% of the vote. District 4, Charlie Lowersdorf with 74.49% of the vote. District five, Deborah Peoples with 54.28% of the [Applause] vote. District seven, Macy Hill was 100% of the vote. District 8, Chris Nettles [Applause] with with 74.10% 10% of the vote. District nine, Elizabeth M. Beck with 65.55% of the vote. District 10, Alan Bllelock with 100% of the vote. District 11, Janette Martinez with 77.07% of the [Applause] vote. As a result of the election, the following individuals will participate in a runoff on Saturday, June 7th, 2025 for council district 6. Mia Hall and Daryl R. Davis II mayor and council. The next action is for council to take action on the resolution number [Music] 6087-05 2025 which canvases the results and declares the results of the general election held on May 3rd 2025. But before council takes action we do have uh a few speakers. Thank you Janette. Our first speaker of this evening is Bob Willoughby who will be followed by Adrienne Smith. Well, mayor, I'd like to give a little rundown of the uh voting history. I ran five times and this has some very important information that people need to know. Oh, we can scroll back up the other way to the top so you can see 2015. We may have to kind of stroll it around a little bit. Okay, 2015. and I ran as a trial run. I got 389 votes. I'll not take credit for those votes. Most of those were just because people will vote for anybody but the officer in in place. So half of those were not for me because I hadn't done anything. I won't take credit for them. 2017 I got ready to run. I got rejected from the ballot for not meeting a requirement that was not on the requirement list. I still got 113 right votes. That's pretty good for Ryan. That's my votes definitely. 2019 they go up 247 votes. If you look at the votes to the left, to the right, they're up to about 4,486 there because we had about four people running. That's the first time we had more people running. I still got 247. 2021 I got 646 votes. I'm moving up every step of the way because I've been working my butt off. Votes total 5,752 votes. We're moving up. The city is growing. It's supposed to go up. 646 votes. 2023 it gets crazy because the woman in the tally room, Cat, has mental problems. She steps down last time they put her back in there. I think there's a problem there. Anyway, the votes dropped down in 2023. I made I went up I still went up only few and my uh campaign funds were double from 5,000 to 11,000, but I only added about 15 votes. They say 3,600 votes. They don't drop like that. That's by design. 2025 this last one 67 votes from 600 to 67 votes total for we're down below around 19 votes. The votes are being destroyed. Recount won't do no good. They're being destroyed and it is 100% corrupt and the mayor is a liar and she can't say anything about that. Thank you. Our next speaker is Adrienne Smith. Adrienne Sliff, I am one with the people. To the voters who participated in the most recent city election, let me be the first to say thank you. Regardless of how your vote was cast, you made it of importance in allowing your voices to be heard by the power of your vote. There is still much more necessary to be done and your collective presence as well as voices are needed if we are to ensure our city is a representation for all who make it home. There is still a dis a big disconnect from those we've elected in the greater community. If we are to consider the number of ballots cast, Mayor Maddie Parker, you continually ins your continual insistence on how we've grown as a city and surpassed Austin only serves only serves the self-importance you have created within your head. to the incumbents to the incumbents who will be operating within another term office. Please don't think for once you are not replaceable. We do have the recall option available for use at our discretion should you not perform said duties prescribed by your oath to office to the media. Fort Worth Star Telegram and Fort Worth report know that you are not the only source of you are not the only source for news and information as it relates to our city. A greater call for accountability, transparency, and fairness from those elected will happen with or without you. I am one with the people. For those who are here, glad you are here. Hopefully, you stay for the duration of the council meeting so you you all can see what transpires as it relates to the business of our city. It's not enough for you all just to vote and then not show up. Talk to us, Adrian. It's not enough for you all to vote and not and not show up anymore. Remember this, this building right here, it cost us taxpayers [Music] 333,626,188. You all have a reason and a purpose to be here. If nothing else, your tax dollars paid for this. your point of orders. You can keep them, sir. You know as well as I know I'm not going nowhere. I'm here to stay. My voice will get louder and my presence will be greater. So, I want you all to get ready. Buckle up. Buckle up. I'm glad you're smiling. Uh uh Mayor Parker, I love to see you smiling. Guess what, Mayor Parker? I hope you're ready for the next two years. Thank you. Thank you, Adrian. Council, that's the conclusion of our speakers for approval. Thank you. And that's that will be officially Mayor Pim's last move for approval. Yes, ma'am. Let's keep this thing moving. Okay. I've got a motion. I've got a second from Council Member Nettles. Please vote. Mayor, just do a hand vote. Okay. All in favor, please say I. I. Any nays? Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. That concludes the action item. I now believe we are ready for ceremonial pieces. Thank you. Um at this time I'm going to turn on an opportunity for our mayor pro Tim um to have a presentation today and I think it's fitting that we allow her to go first. I know each of us on this dis will probably have things to add um after her discussion. Um but Mayor Pro Tim the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you. And a special thanks to Bob Willoughby who made life very easy for me. I have a presentation, but I've been so excited I kind of forgot what I was going to say. I think it's a PowerPoint. If it is, you can start it. Okay, next page please. When when I got in office back in 2013, I found out thanks to people like Paul Geel, who's in the audience today, that there was a big problem in stop six centering around blight. Nobody was building homes. I think we had fewer than 300 homes built in a Oh, I can see it that way. Thank you. They always help me. Thank you. Thank you. Is it going to move when she moves? Okay. And so it turns out, you know, we had fewer than 300 homes built in stop six in more than a decade. That meant the community was imploding upon itself. Next slide, please. I think it's kind of sticky. It shows you zoning was a problem with when it came to stop six, even tackling the the Buddhist temple in the district. Next slide. This one is what they call the money shot. If we get it, it's going to show you how homes were looking in stop six back in 2013 and and even before. Can you move it to the next one? Does it move? Okay, that's one home, two homes, three homes. Next slide, please. I asked builders in stop six and from stop six, why wouldn't they build in stop six? And what I found out was the zoning was very restrictive. uh we had a historic district overlay that meant if you wanted to build something it had to be approved by people who you knew nothing about. When we took away that historic restriction, building homes in Stop Six made the news. It was just that newsworthy. This is NBC5 and several other stations. Yeah, we got a whole bunch of news coverage from that. Next slide, please. What ended up happening was we saw homes in stop six like what you see on the screen there and you could see them anywhere on the west side of Fort Worth. Those are homes on Hughes and a few other streets. Next slide please. What really helped us a lot was our partnership with the housing authority as you all know it to be. The new name is Fort Worth Housing Solutions. I had the pleasure of taking Ben Carson, who was HUD secretary, on a tour of Stop Six and showed him the projects. Anybody know the name Caval or the projects? Anybody from Stop Six? Yeah. Yeah. Well, those things were built in 1954 and people were still living in them. One problem was if you turned on the flat iron, you couldn't turn on the light. If you wanted to run your computer, you couldn't get internet. We were able to get the approval with the a charts grant funded from HUD to the city in Fort Worth for a $36 million grant. That was a major turnaround for us. And so what made it really work for Ben, I was able to call him Ben, was he looked and saw a police substation in the projects. He didn't know that substation had been closed for about three years. I had only reopened it. Next slide. probably uh probably two months before his tour, he would come back to Fort Worth specifically for four more visits. And the partnership with the housing authority really got solidified. There you'll see congressman Mark Vzy. You see Mary Margaret Lemons, the CEO of the housing solutions. You see the Louise of Thelma and Louise. That's Sandy Bro, my sidekick. And there's an African-American gentleman right next to me. That's Don Vers. Mr. Babvers had been the regional HUD administrator in the Bush administration and led the public housing rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. He was key to the success we were seeing in stop six. Next slide, please. There's Don again. We will have what's called Baker's Manor. Next slide, please. Named in his honor on Remy. That's the groundbreaking for that. Next slide. And the other part of stop six, there used to be a Dairy Queen. And Mary Ellen, you may remember that Dairy Queen on Berry. Okay. Barry and Style Cup. That thing caught fire in 1986. In 2012, it was still standing there as a monument to blight. So, we were able to tear down the Dairy Queen. And you know how important it is for me to show that awful picture of me. They said I look mad as hell. But we ran into delays in tearing it down. And because of it, we were able to attract a development team led by Jeremus Smith, who is the tallest guy in the picture there. And with help from Dr. Sorels from Paul Quinn College, and this was like a a beauty pageant, which developer is going to have the best project for stop six. Next slide, please. We also had trouble getting a grocery store. Deborah, you can relate to to that need. This is another neighborhood, Lakes of River Trails, where we're able to bring the train. Now, you would think with 3,400 homes in Lakes River Trails and a train station, which means transit oriented development that a grocery store would come. It's coming. We just have to wait and pray and cross fingers and do dances. But I'm happy to let you all know that because of Jim Austin, we were able to close a deal for a grocery store in stop six. It'll be at Turney and Rosedale. That's a neighborhood store. Next slide, please. And and keep in mind that's really not because of my work. That's because of the work of a lot of people making development happen. Uh in when I came to office, I met a 102y old lady. No, she was 98 then. And uh Buck Cass used to take her communion and her name was Oh, I can't think of her name now, but Duchess is her niece, Miss Brown. Amitria Brown. She took me where the old colored school had been and it was so neglected. We really thought the school was still there. Weeds were about 10 to 15 feet high. And Commissioner Roy Brooks, Commissioner, please wave your hand. Commissioner Roy Brooks helped me with Moer Valley Park so that we could have paving concrete and and have the beginning of a park where that school had been. It is there. At some point, we offered the community leaders to go for corporate dollars to fund the needed amenities they wanted. At that time, they opted to just raise the money themselves, but we were able to put another million dollars in the budget for that thanks to another bond package, and that'll give the newly elected council woman something to work with. It's not going to buy you everything you want, but it's something there. Next slide, please. There she is, Miss Brown. When you deal with code compliance and zoning, how many of you have heard of people getting notices about if you don't fix this, we're going to find you $1,000 a day? Well, that is very Yeah, that that's nerve-wracking for people, especially the elderly. Miss Brown is only one that I dealt with who had that problem. So, I called in firefighters from the 440 and they tore down a dilapidated building for this very special, sweet woman. Next slide, please. Next slide. One thing that has been very important to me and for whatever reason I think it's going to be the center of my next focus. I wanted children to see how government works and what does it take to pass laws, pass ordinances, bring about change. And so thanks to Mayor Maddie Parker, we have had school children coming from primarily district 5, but all over in this city council. Well, this not this one, but the old one here too. And Mandy Parker, thank you for doing that. Uh, we've had kids from Key School. Now, it was really rocking the last time because we had the drum line from OD Wyatt here. That was rocking the house. Next slide. If there's another one anymore. Oh, I've been from the west wing of the White House to Italy representing the city. And Carlos Flores knows we were not supposed to have taken that picture. Yeah, we we we we were in Camela Harris's office and yeah, we were on her desk, opened the drawer, did a whole lot of stuff. And so somebody came in and said, "You can't be behind that desk." I said, "Well, we'll we'll delete the pictures." And we didn't delete those pictures. No way in the world. We just did not post them, but we we had fun there. And in in Italy, I represented us with the sister cities. Next slide. I had such a wonderful time learning more about public transportation and served as the chair of the regional transportation. That stuff's kind of boring. You can go to the next slide if there was another one. And so Sandy bro, please stand. Where's [Applause] Sandy? There are people who call me and Sandy Thelma and Louise. and they they they swore when we walked out of here, we'd walk out shooting backwards at everybody. I think we're going to be okay. I'd like for my family members to stand. Those of you who are family, that includes you too, Sam, please [Applause] stand. And now I'd like for all those rowdy people of District 5, including Dwayne Dancer, to please stand. [Applause] Thank you all so very much for being here. The only thing I can tell you is I'm really glad to be leaving. I've been here 12 years. I'm packing my stuff right now. Oh, but one thing I forgot. Where is Rodney? Rodney, where's where is Rodney? Rodney here. Well, let me tell you. I owe Rodney a big old thank you. Now, I was going to go to my office, but I got here a little late. There's something in there where I was going to place this bowl for Deborah Peoples. Deborah, join me down here. [Applause] center's okay. Turn this around. Okay, let me tell you what Rodney did. You had no idea. But we learned from Rodney a few things about you. And any woman coming to city hall, okay, especially an African-American woman, you got to have a flat iron, okay? You got to have a curling iron or or taking care of the roots, okay? But you cannot be here as a woman and not have your favorite. Hello. Yes, it is. Oh my gosh. And this is my favorite. Okay. Thank you. It is my favorite. Okay. Now, I'm not good at presents or packages. So, here's the ribbon for it. Okay. Okay. All right. And here's a bow for this chair. Okay. That's a B. Okay. Yeah. So, so what Councilwoman Biv won't tell you is that she has this amazing uh lounge chair in her office that she told me she got for Samoth Hill. And so I think I must have looked so sad that she left it. So Sam, you don't get the chair. I do. Okay. Have a Thank you, darling. Okay, I'mma get my stuff and get out of your way. Can I get my stuff and leave here if Yes, ma'am. You But you're welcome to stay also if you'd like to. [Applause] I have to hug everybody. Yes. She's not leaving yet, ladies and gentlemen. I know my sority sisters in here. Come on. You can line up your presents here. It looks like here's my iPad. I'm Ladies, please go ahead. Madam Mayor, good afternoon, esteemed guests, members of the council and cherished friends. At this moment, I kindly ask the distinguished members of the Beta Mu Omega chapter to please rise. not just in formality, but in unity, sisterhood, and a deep reverence for women, for a woman whose legacy is woven into the very fabric of our community. Today, we gather to celebrate a woman of remarkable vision, unwavering purpose, and unparalleled service. Our very own mayor promp, our sorority sister, Councilwoman Gina Bivvens. As president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, the blazing Beta Mu Omega chapter here in Fort Worth, I am proud to represent a sisterhood with over 120 years of com of committed service, leadership, and empowerment. A legacy that our sister Gina Bivvens has so beautifully upheld and elevated. Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about caring for those you serve. And serve she has. For more than a decade, Councilwoman Gina Bivvens have been a beacon in Fort Worth. She has advocated fiercely, led boldly, served humbly. Her tireless dedication is evidenced in her unwavering focus on youth development as you saw in the slide because she believes every child deserve a bright future. Her equitable opportunity because she knows justice must be lived and not just spoken. Sustainable progress because she dares to build for a better tomorrow. Restored. Six. As you saw in the video, homes that she built and tore down dilapidate dilapidated homes. Her vision has propelled the city of Fort Worth. Her heart has uplift and healed. Her voice has spoken for those too often unheard. Service is the rent that we pay for the privilege of living on earth, says Shirley Chisum. Councilwoman Gina Bivvens. As you begin a new chapter, we don't just celebrate the conclusion of a political role. We celebrate a living legacy of service, compassion, lasting impact. It is our very privilege to present this plaque, a special token of immense appreciation for a woman whose contribution cannot be measured by titles, but by the lives she changed and the hope she restored. Councilwoman Gina Bivvens, thank you for showing us what it means to lead with purpose, love, and sincerity and to serve. The legacy of heroes is not rem not uh the memories is not greater than the inheritant of theam great example. Your name is etched in the leadership. Your example is etched in our hearts as we step forward into what lies ahead. May it brings you peace. You earned it. The joy you have given and the blessing you so richly deserve. Councilwoman Gina Bibbons, congratulation. You're not closing a chapter. You're launching a new legacy. And the best is not just ahead. It is yours to lead. Thank you. I am Annie Taylor Curtis, the president of the blazing Beta Mu Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Well done. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. [Applause] Okay. Um, oh my link sister. I was about to shut it down. If I could have the members of the Fort Worth, Texas chapter of the Lynx Incorporated please stand. On behalf of the women of the Fort Worth, Texas chapter of the Lynx Incorporated, we extend our deepest gratitude to Mayor Pro Tim Gina Bibbons for your unwavering dedication, your transformative leadership, not just on the Fort Worth city council, not just in the meetings of the Fort Worth, Texas links, but also just in the lives of all. Over your tenure, you have championed not only the revitalization of East Fort Worth, most notably in Stop 6, where your efforts led to a 24 reduction in crime and a 74% increase in building permits following significant capital improvements. As a counseling link, Gina Vivvens, you have been instrumental in enhancing civic engagement. You initiated programs that brought children to learn about governance. Your commitment to your community, to its well-being has been evident, not just in your advocacy, but in making sure that you're planting olive trees that you'll never sit under. That is sustainable leadership and that matters. You're a legacy builder. You're a change agent. Beyond these city limits, your leadership has extended. You said it was a boring slide, but you served as a chair of the regional transportation council of the North Texas Council of Governments where you have provided strategic direction not just in the regional but in the federal advocacy and governance. You are a visionary. You are a community leader. You are a steadfast friend, sister, but more than that, child of God, we honor you. Bravo, Lentina. [Applause] Okay, happy trails. I'm going to do a magic trick and when I do it, I think Deborah Peoples will know what to do. You all will love working with Deborah Peoples, the council member elect. She is a very embracing person. She's very friendly. She's more friendly than me. I was an only child for like 10 years, so I'm kind of socially awkward, you know, but people gravitate, you know, to to Deborah. And I think staff is going to bend over backwards trying to do what you want them to do. Uh Carrie Moon, I see you here. I'm waiting for you to have a real good act at the club and I'll be there. Okay. So, Deborah, watch this magic trick. And do me a favor. When I do my trick, have the camera on, Deborah. Bye, y'all. I'm out of [Applause] here. Actually, council member elect people stay down on the D in the in the well because we're going to we're going to meet you here to do the swearing in. That sounds okay. Thank you. And at at this time, I'm gonna make sure I'm not out of order here, Janette. I think the plan is to invite a very special guest, correct? Yes. Down to join Deborah um for the oath of office. Am I correct? Yes. Okay. Is Dr. Opel Lee here? Do we know? No. But Mary Ellen Hicks, Judge Mary Ellen Hicks is going to administer the oath of office. So, please welcome Judge Marielen Hicks to the dis here. Thank you. I was not going to cry today. Don't Don't cry. But I am so proud to elated to have the honor of swearing. Come closer. Come closer. Oh, I talk. Okay. All right. I said I wasn't going to cry, but I will. This young lady is my baby sister and we have been down many many roads and we have taken we've been on so many journeys together and I am so proud of you. Deborah, don't cry. Okay. As for President Barack Obama told my daughter Whitney, Whitney, you'll run your mascara. Don't cry. Okay. In the name and by the authority of the state of Texas, I state your name. I, Deborah Peoples, do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of council member of the office of council member district five district five city of Fort Worth city of Fort Worth and of the state of Texas and of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve preserve preserve protect protect and defend the Constitution and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and laws of the United States and of this state and of this state. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. I'm excited. [Applause] Okay. All right. Let's go. They want to get on with business. At this time, it is my honor. Okay. At this time, it is my honor as your mayor to welcome council member Deborah Peoples to the dis. [Applause] Oh, do I want to take a selfie? Council member Peoples, take your selfie with Jared. And at this time, the floor is yours to give your remarks. Well, my remarks won't be as long as Gina's, but I do have to get up. So to my friends from Nepalese community, namaste. To my friends from the Muslim community, assalamu alaikum. To my friends from the Latino community, much gracias. And to my friends and family everywhere, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I would not be standing here today or sitting here today if it were not for the collective energy of everybody in this room. So, I see Commissioner Brooks who the first phone call I made, I said, "I'm thinking about running for district 5." He said, "Miss Deb, if you want it, you can have it." He was always there and always supportive. But Jennifer, I know you did more than he did. So, thank you. But I'm going to start wi quickly by saying talking just a little bit. And I promise these won't be long, okay? Okay. But I want to talk about a famous and thank you Madame President of Ala Al Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated for mentioning the most amazing member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Sorly Chisum who said if they don't give you a seat at the table bring a folding chair. And so my journey has been the journey of all of you in this room. I brought a folding chair because I love the city of Fort Worth. Always have, always will, and I love District 5. I tell everybody when I retired from AT&T and moved back to Fort Worth, I moved to the east side of Fort Worth because I think it is the most sorry other council people. I think it is the most extraordinary piece of humanity that exists in the whole state of Texas. It is culturally diverse. It is rich in nature. It has everything that makes life worth living. And so from my bees to my tomato plants to my cucumber plants, District 5 for me has it all. And so I moved to the east side of Fort Worth so that I could revel and embrace in all the things that are provided there. And so when I got ready to run, I reached out to many of my friends and family. And so I've run for many things. You all know that I've ran for mayor twice. Maddie and I have been on a on a a ballot together. I've run for county judge. But I, Roz, I don't run for things just to run. I run for things because I love this city and this county. And I believe that I have things that I that I can give. And so when the opportunity came up, when Councilwoman Bivbis decided not to run, many of my friends reached out to me and said, "You absolutely need to run for this, Charles." They said, "This is where you can best fit and work." And so I reached out to fellow members on the council to see what they thought. I'm probably the oldest person up here. I'm I'm the oldie in the group, but I believe I am young at heart. And so I reached out to a team. And so I'm going to ask very quickly my team to stand up. Steuart Kle, will you stand up? Melinda Hamilton, are you here? Tina James, are you here? Reverend John Reed, are you here? Twin, are you here? And so Marco Rosas in the back, are you here? Daniel, I see you back there. Uh Jace Reed, will you wave? And so I reached out to people, a group of people who have been with me over the years and said, "Do you think we can do this?" And they said, "Absolutely." and we went to work. They said, "All we need to know is that you love district five like we love district 5 and we will get to work." And so I then turned once I turned to my dirty dozen, I turned to my family, to my niece Kathleen, to my sister Mary Ellen, to my extraordinary ex-husband who is my bestest friend Walter Peoples, to my two daughters, Channing Octavia Margaret, who is a filmmaker and who is filming as she always does. To my youngest daughter, Whitney Alexandria Peoples, I'm sorry, Dr. Peeps. Okay, who works at the University of Michigan. To my bonus son, Christopher Reginal Stanley, would you please stand up? Who is in cyber security and sends me notes all the time. Take that down. Cut that off. Okay. And then to my partner of 24 years who missed the whole presentation about the recliner, Rodney Stanley, would you please wave? So I went to my family and said, "What do you think?" And they said, "Mom, you are always giving of yourself and community and even if we told you not to do it, you're going to do it. So we are there for you." So, I want to thank my family for being there along this journey with me. So, I just need to give you all a round of applause. But more importantly, I am on this council. Claire, I see you back there. Okay. I am on this council because I love the residents of District 5. I believe we I love the residents of the city of Fort Worth, but I want to make sure that we are building a foundation for the residents in district 5 that increases not only the quality of their life, but the quantity of their life. I want to do the things that you asked me to do like economic development, like better public safety, like uh better affordable housing. I am your servant. While you elected me as a city council person, I am your servant. I am there to do the things that you want me to do. So, Mohan Gowali, I love you and I am so grateful to the work that you did in the Nepalese community. We will get those parks and we will get those street lights that you need in North Fort Worth. And so to my friends who live in stop six, we will make sure that we get code compliance to pick up that trash and make sure that when you come home at night, you can come home safely and the streets are clean. To my friends in Riverbend and Bentley Village and all the neighborhood associations, I hear you. I hear your concerns. Your concerns are my concerns. And so to everyone in Fort Worth, I am not someone to be feared, but I am going to be the most amazing champion that you have ever seen for District 5. So, thank [Applause] you. Very well said, council member. Thank you and welcome to the dis. I think at this point we're going to adjourn. Correct Janette? No, we're going to go ahead and swear in. We're going to swear in everybody else. Okay, perfect. Before we do that, it is significant to have a retirement of Mayor Tim Bivvens on this dis. And I just want to be very clear that as Deborah can attest, when you run for mayor, you're exhausted at the end of that time period. And you get to see every single facet of the community. And Deborah and I, I think at the end of it, we calculated over 80 debates um working together. And I have the utmost respect for Deborah. And I do know that the council district 5 is incredibly well represented and we were all really much looking forward to your service on this council. So congratulations to our newest council member. So I just have to say this, Madame Mayor. I bet you didn't lose an appendix along the way. I did this. Luckily, I still have my appendix. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, she was campaigning in the middle of having to deal with an apppendecttomy. That says something. Absolutely. Um and and also as we move into I should have said done this earlier. We are joined by several special guests today. I saw former council member Carrie Moon was here. Of course, former council member Kathleen Hicks is here. It's great to see Kathleen. Judge Marilyn Hicks who got to see Judge Hicks earlier. Commissioner Roy Brooks and his wonderful wife is here. And then Council Member Hill's husband, James Hill, who just retired from the Tarant Water District is also here. We appreciate you, James. So, a lot of wonderful people that have served um on behalf of the city of Fort Worth are here this evening. So, thank you. At this time, I think we're all going to join you in the in the well. Is that correct, Janette? So, but first, we're going to have Council Member Nettles come down. Council Nettles, you can be joined by your family and friends and significant guests. And after we swear in Council Member Nettles, the rest of us will get sworn in separately. These are not all my kids, y'all. Y Come on. They kind of are, but no. And in the name and by the authority of the state of Texas, I Chris Nettles do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of the office of council member district 8 for city of Fort Worth. of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability of my ability preserve preserve protect protect and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and laws of the United States and of this and of this state. So help me God. Thank you. Back up. Okay, council. And if the rest of us want to join in, well, your guests who are helping with the swearing in can join us as well. Speak up really loud. work. Amen. laws of the United States And this help. [Applause] And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes our swearing in ceremony. Welcome to the entire Fort Worth City Council. And we're going to we're going to close this meeting and then give us about five minutes to reset for the six o'clock meeting. Meeting is adjourned. And congratulations. [Applause]